Talk:Six Days of New York

Start date of the Madison Square Garden six-day races
In Todd Balf's biography of Major Taylor, he notes that Taylor got his start at a six-day race at Madison Square Garden in 1896. (Teddy Hale of Ireland won; Taylore came in 8th). Britannica and Peloton Magazine say six-day racing started at Madison Square Garden in 1891. The wiki article for six day races uses the 1891 date. The New York Times 19 Oct 1891 talks of the start of a Six-Day Race in Madison Square Garden. Here's an article about 1893.

This wiki article lists the start of the "Six Days of New York" as 1899. Is that incorrect? Were the earlier races a different series? Or don't count, somehow? Not held every year? I'm not enough of a cycling historian to understand. Should they at least be mentioned in a "background" section? The 1896 race seems particularly notable for being Taylor's first professional race, and would seem worthy of mention. - Kzirkel (talk) 00:15, 13 June 2021 (UTC)